Europe making a push to eliminate the concept of "gender roles"

BERLIN — Caitlyn Jenner may have given Americans a crash course in transgender acceptance. But progressive pockets of Europe are moving toward an even higher plane — embracing what advocates describe as a post-gender world that critics say is leaving no room for women to be women and men to be men.

In Berlin, fresh rules for billboard ads in a district of the liberal German capital, for instance, read like a new constitution for a land without gender identity. Girls in pink “with dolls” are basically out, as are boys in blue playing “with technical toys.” In ads showing both adult women and men, females cannot be depicted as “hysterical,” “stupid” or “naïve” alongside men presented as “technically skilled,” “strong” or “business savvy.”

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